Linguistics

An entertaining guide to human nature that reveals how people really make big choices. What makes somebody change their world view completely? Wh...

Originally published in 1980. The skills of reading and writing have been proclaimed as universal human rights. This book explores why this should ...

This book features effective artistic practices to improve literacy and language skills for emergent bilinguals in PreK-12 schools. Including insig...

While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of et...

Over ten years after the original edition of Teacher Identity Discourses, Janet Alsup revisits her work with a new research study examining the cha...

English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia: New Insights into Teaching and Learning English offers a detailed discussion of key aspects of teach...

This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin’s 1923 essay "Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers," best known in English under the title "The Task of ...

Semántica: Una introducción al significado lingüístico en español es una introducción integral al estudio de la semántica con un enfoque especial e...

Maintaining English as the sole language of knowledge production and dissemination in universities that enrol students who speak multiple languages...

Grounded in a systemic functional linguistic (SFL) approach, this book applies a contrastive interlanguage corpus-based approach to investigate the...

This book argues that Sellars’ theory of intentionality can be understood as an advancement of a transcendental philosophical approach. It shows ho...

Offering a nuanced examination of the complex landscape that international scholars who publish their research in English must navigate, this edite...

The issue of differences between translational language and native-speaker language has become a topic of increasing interest in linguistics and Tr...

Speaking Out: Issues and Controversies 各抒己见 is an advanced Chinese language textbook that explores topics such as human nature, moral values, mass ...

Offering diverse and wide-ranging perspectives on gender, sexualities, and literacies, this volume examines the intersection of these topics from p...

Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice. This book is the...

This timely book tackles underlying issues that see disproportionate numbers of African American males with dyslexia undiagnosed, untreated, and fa...

Providing a simple – but not simplistic – introduction to the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) of English, this book serves as a launching pad for...

This book is an exploration of the desirability and feasibility of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in specific university settings in South East A...

An understanding of sociocultural context is crucial in second language learning–yet developing this awareness often poses a real challenge to the ...

Cantonese is a language from southern China that is spoken by roughly 70 million people worldwide. It is the language of Hong Kong cinema and has t...

China's Contemporary Image and Rhetoric Practice presents an overview of Chinese diplomatic rhetoric, exploring how the image of China is depicted ...

Metaphors of Multilingualism explores changing attitudes towards multilingualism by focusing on shifts both in the choice and in the use of metapho...

Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate social relationship...